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Hello! My name is Mari Okazaki, I am originally from Nagasaki, Japan and I live in Chilliwack, British Columbia with my loving husband and three beautiful children.
My path with Reiki probably had started slowly since my father passed away over 30years ago, but it wasn’t until the birth of our second child that the pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place for me.
Both of my parents were passed away in their young age because of the medical accident made me question about medications and the prescription drugs, and be open to other forms of healing and believe in our body’s natural healing system. I believed it was very important to learn about the human body, so I would be able to build healthy family. So I decided to study Health and Physical Education at Tokyo Women’s College of Physical Education in Japan where I earned my degree.
After my second child was diagnosed as a severe case of Eczema, I started to look for a treatment method that would help my 3month old daughter. During that time, two people told me to take Reiki course and to start treat my daughter. Although I had heard of Reiki before, I did not know what exactly Reiki was. But the more I research about Reiki, the more I got excited to learn as soon as possible. I wanted to learn in Japanese, my first language, so then I can fully understand the concepts. I took Level one from a Japanese master in 2005 and this lead me to find out more about the original root of Reiki with Mr.Tadao Yamaguchi from Jikiden Reiki Institude. I simply wanted to be as close to the original, to Mikao Usui’s teachings as possible and Mr.Tadao Yamaguchi from Jikiden Reiki was the closest in lineage that I could find. When I found out that Tadao-sensei’s mother, Chiyoko, had learned Reiki from Chujiro Hayashi who was one of 20 students of Mikao Usui, I got very excited and decided to further my education with him. I took his course and started to treat my daughter every night at the bedtime. After two month, her skin became clearer, and after about 5months her skin was completely clear.
We now have three children, and every time they feel sick or feel anxious, I use Reiki and it always works, and they just love it. It is a great way of giving attention and kinship for children.
Under the guidance of Mr.Yamaguchi and my own dedication to private practice and private Reiki classes, I became Shihan (teacher) in 2008. I feel very honored to be Mr.Yamaguchi’s translator at his annual seminar in Vancouver, and it is one of the most wonderful experience.
As I am writing this article, my memory came back to me when the time I had decided to come to Canada in 1999. At that time, my goal was to become a bridge between Canada and Japan in some way, but I did not know how I could do that. Now I realized that I am on my way to achieving my goal to be a bridge by educating Reiki, the Japanese method of healing technique, in Canada in English which is my second language. It is not easy to teach things in this second language. However, I am grateful to be able to teach Reiki along with my Japanese culture, which has a beautiful old history and not very simple to understand. The concept of Reiki is very deeply related to Japanese culture and thinking that I would like to teach Japanese culture as much as I know during my class.
~ May your hands be guided by the energy within us all ... ~
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